Military recruitment and conscription in the 21st century
Trend Report 3 / January 2023 by Sanna Strand
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Sanna Strand
Affiliated Researcher
Sanna Strand is an Affiliated Researcher and a former a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the oiip. She is also a postdoctoral researcher and teaching fellow at the Department of Economic History and International Relations, Stockholm University. She defenced her thesis in Peace and Development Research at University of Gothenburg in 2019. Sanna’s research focuses broadly on how young people are recruited to military service as well as how military service, missions and mandates are and has been legitimated to European publics. Her current research project is funded by the Swedish Research Council and explores the role and status of military conscription in contemporary Europe.
Vita
Education
- PhD, Peace & Development Research, School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg, 2019
- MSc., with Distinction, Global Security Studies, University of Glasgow, 2014
- B.A., Global Studies, School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg, 2013
Professional positions
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Austrian Institute for International Affairs (oiip), Vienna, 2021-2024
- Postdoctoral Researcher and Teaching Fellow, Department of Economic History and International Relations, Stockholm University, 2020
- Project Leader & Research Fellow, the Swedish Centre for Studies of Armed Forces and Society (CSMS), IMIT Foundation and Royal Institute for Technology (KTH), Stockholm, 2020
- Doctoral Student, Peace & Development Research, School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg, 2015-2020
- Visiting Research Scholar with the Women’s Studies Certificate Program, City University of New York (CUNY), 2017-18
Publications
Selected publications
- Stern, Maria & Strand, Sanna (forthcoming) ‘Periods, pregnancy and peeing: leaky feminine bodies in Swedish military marketing’, accepted for publication in International Political Sociology, 2021/22
- Strand, Sanna (2021) ‘Fighting for public health: the promotion of desirable bodies in interactive military marketing’, Media, War & Conflict, 14:1, 40-56. DOI: 10.1177/1750635219856559, 2021
- Strand, Sanna (2021) ’Inventing the Swedish (War) Veteran’, Critical Military Studies, 7:1, 23-41, DOI: 10.1080/23337486.2018.1481267, 2021
- Strand, Sanna & Kehl, Katharina (2019) ‘”A country to fall in love with/in”: Gender and Sexuality in Swedish Armed Forces’ marketing campaigns’, International Feminist Journal of Politics. 21:2, 295-314. DOI: 10.1080/14616742.2018.1487772, 2019
- Strand, Sanna & Berndtsson, Joakim (2015) ‘Recruiting the “enterprising soldier”: military recruitment discourses in Sweden and the United Kingdom’, Critical Military Studies, 1:3, 233-248, DOI: 10.1080/23337486.2015.1090676, 2015
Alle Beiträge von Dr.in Sanna Strand
Remaking the draft: Northern Europe infuses conscription with values
Interview with Sanna Strand on military conscription in the Nordic-Baltic region, in light...
Drafting women into the army the Norwegian way
Interview with Sanna Strand about the Scandinavian model of gender neutral military...
The “Scandinavian model” of military conscription: A formula for democratic defence forces in...
Policy Analysis by Sanna Strand